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WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
416 AM CST MON NOV 12 2012


...WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES IN WEATHER...

SHORTLY AFTER 1 PM CST...THE LEADING EDGE OF WIDESPREAD LIGHT TO
MODERATE RAIN...ASSOCIATED WITH THE APPROACH OF A COLD FRONT PUSHED
INTO SOUTHEAST MISSOURI NEAR VAN BUREN AND HANDY. THIS RAIN CONTINUED
TO MOVE SLOWLY EAST DURING THE REMAINDER OF SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND
EVENING...REACHING NEAR FORT CAMPBELL AND OWENSBORO KENTUCKY
SHORTLY AROUND 10 PM CST. THIS RAIN CONTINUED TO OVERSPREAD THE
QUAD STATE REGION DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS INTO MONDAY.

RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL FROM THE PADUCAH KENTUCKY NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR...STRETCHING OVER A TIME PERIOD FROM 1 PM
CST SUNDAY THROUGH 330 AM CST MONDAY...INDICATED THAT SWATHS OF
RAINFALL BETWEEN ONE AND ONE AND A HALF INCHES WERE NOTED FROM
POPLAR BLUFF MISSOURI...PINCKNEYVILLE AND MOUNT VERNON
ILLINOIS...AND FROM PORTAGEVILLE MISSOURI TO CAIRO AND EDDYVILLE
ILLINOIS. LESSER AMOUNTS...LESS THAN AN INCH...COVERED THE
REMAINDER OF THE AREA.

ACTUAL RAINFALL TOTALS AS OF MIDNIGHT SHOWED THAT POPLAR BLUFF
MISSOURI HAD RECEIVED 1.23 INCHES...CAPE GIRARDEAU MISSOURI 0.86
INCHES...CARBONDALE ILLINOIS 1.03 INCHES...PADUCAH KENTUCKY 0.55
INCHES...OWENSBORO KENTUCKY 0.15 INCHES AND EVANSVILLE INDIANA
0.21 INCHES.

TEMPERATURES IN ADVANCE OF THE COLD FRONT WERE MOSTLY IN THE 70S
ON SUNDAY. A COUPLE OF OBSERVATIONS SITES LOCATED NEAR RIEDLAND AND
WATER VALLEY KENTUCKY TOPPED OUT AT 75 DEGREES. LOCATIONS NEAR POPLAR
BLUFF AND GIDEON MISSOURI...METROPOLIS AND CAIRO ILLINOIS...AND
THE MADISONVILLE KENTUCKY AREA REPORTED A HIGH OF 73 DEGREES. ON
THE OTHER SIDE...GORHAM AND DIX ILLINOIS REPORTING SITES WERE THE COOLEST
WITH 64 DEGREES FOR HIGH TEMPERATURES ON SUNDAY. 

ONCE THE COLD FRONT PASSED EACH LOCATION...TEMPERATURES FELL SOME
5 TO 15 DEGREES WITHIN A COUPLE OF HOURS.

IN ADDITION TO THE RAIN AND TEMPERATURES...THE WINDS WERE QUITE
GUSTY ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. OBSERVING LOCATIONS NEAR
GORHAM AND GOREVILLE ILLINOIS TOPPED OUT WITH A WIND GUST OF 42
MPH SUNDAY AFTERNOON...WITH QUITE A NUMBER OF SITES ACROSS THE
QUAD REGION REPORTED WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 30 AND 40 MPH.

THE RAIN FOLLOWING THE COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE LATE SUNDAY AND SUNDAY
NIGHT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE COMPLETELY EAST OF THE QUAD STATE
REGION LATE THIS MONDAY MORNING...WITH THE CENTER OF SURFACE HIGH
PRESSURE QUICKLY BUILDING OVER THE AREA BY MONDAY NIGHT. THIS AREA
OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL THEN DOMINATE THE AREA FOR THE REMAINDER OF
THE WEEK.

HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL START OUT CLOSE TO 20 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL
ON MONDAY...REMAINING NEARLY FIVE DEGREES COLDER THAN NORMAL BY
THE START OF THE WEEKEND. LOWS TEMPERATURES WILL BE 5 TO 15
DEGREES BELOW NORMAL FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. OVERALL...EXPECT
TEMPERATURES THIS WEEK TO REMAIN BELOW NORMAL.

$$

SMITH